Railway Herald
All change at Sawmills, Ambergate with the construction of a footbridge to replace a foot crossing seen here on 28th October 2014 as a Cross Country Trains Class 220 heads north with a Plymouth to Edinburgh service. Planning justification for the footbridge was based on the powers still available under the North Midland Railway Company Acts of 1836 and 1837 to allow a railway undertaker, from time to time, to alter or repair any works. A second footbridge is also under construction a quarter of a mile along the line to the north for another footpath. The information board in the foreground tells the story of the Bullbridge Aqueduct which carried the Cromford Canal over the railway at this point.
David Brooks
